They mention in the article the three brands that did not contain microplastics are from Taiwan (refined sea salt), China (refined rock salt), and France (unrefined sea salt produced by solar evaporation).
I've traditionally used salt from the French producer La Baleine because it's tastier than Morton's, the largest brand.
I'd love to know that on top of flavor, I'm also getting a healthier product.
"In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men"
From the study:
"The simulated distributions of girls’ and boys’ grades show the distributions of grades overlap more in STEM (94.2%) than non-STEM (88.2%) subjects. For example, within the top 10% of the distribution the gender ratio is even for STEM, and slightly female-skewed for non-STEM (language, humanities, social science). One possible explanation is that boys’ are more affected by the ceiling affect in STEM than non-STEM. For example, if a grading scale cannot distinguish between students in the top 1% or top 0.1%, and if there exists a male skew in the top 0.1% only in STEM but non in non-STEM, then gender differences in variance would be underestimated in STEM.
I thought the purpose of Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was to illustrate the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation. So, now the new thought experiment is again reinforcing original thought experiment... that you can have two different conclusions?
If it's anything like the last retro console -- NES Classic Edition -- Sony will produce about 10,000 units and create mass hysteria for it.
Now, a business-minded person would Nintendo shorted the market to create more demand; of course in Nintendo's case, it was only to create hysteria as they never produced more to meet that demand.
One of the most bizarre Christmas product releases I've ever seen.
The key word (the dog whistle term) is "overtake". Machines aren't "overtaking" anything. They're helping to automate processes, just as they did in the automotive industry and other manufacturing markets. Some jobs go away, others will be created -- perhaps even more interesting careers will come out of the more mundane processes going away
Author Bill Bryson explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. I'm just beginning the book, but I've already found it absolutely fascinating as it's filled with little factoids, such as why Pluto lost its planetary status (it's less than half the size of the United States and may even be a comet in the Kuiper belt), or of the billions and billions of species that existed throughout Earth's history, 99.99% of them no longer exist; the average existence of a species is 4 million years.
I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me. After that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
The Russian "involvement" in the 2016 election is being overplayed. We act is if the U.S. and other nations don't try to affect the outcome of elections around the world, and that the fake news on Facebook/Twitter in our last election somehow influenced a large swatch of the electorate -- people other than died-in-the-wool conservative. It's not as if moderates were suddenly believing Pizzagate was real and Hillary Clinton and top Democratic operatives are running an underground and possibly satanic child sex ring out of a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C.
I think it would be interesting to see the results of an objective poll or some other study showing just how much influence fake news had in the election. To date, all we have is a narrative being pushed by sore losers.
1. Obviously, it's vastly more difficult to leave a country than a job. In the U.S., we have a free market system, which means you can use your legs and pocket books to cast your vote for or agains a company.
2. You can change laws (i.e., government policies) through a number of channels: voting, protesting, lobbying, ballot initiatives, etc...
Sowing discord... that is vague. There are many reasons for discord; attempting to tie a foreign propaganda campaign into that does seem a nearly impossible task. So, do we trust that the institutions established post-1776, believing they're strong enough to continue to stand, or do we form another House Committee on UnAmerican Activity and begin a witch hunt for anyone deemed to be sowing discord? Personally, I think our union is strong enough to withstand any foreign attempt to overthrow it from within.
If you don't think you're being paid enough, find another job. I don't like this idea that the government is going to get into the business of micromanaging how much companies pay their employees. A minimum wage is one standard for all, but to begin taxing companies as a way of penalizing them for not paying their employees enough: hello socialism.
So, Russia placed misinformation on social networks, and who do we believe that swayed? I've yet to see a single study, or even anyone claiming, those ads and fake news reports actually had an effect on the election, i.e., convinced voters to choose one candidate over another. Isn't that something that should be studied?
Seems to me, the only people who'd gravitate to the type of fake news and misinformation being put out during the 2016 campaign were those already staunchly in their political corners.
While many believe DST was started for farming, in fact, most farmers don't like it.
Historically, DST began in 1916, when the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary introduced it as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the United States adopted daylight saving in 1918.
Broadly speaking, most jurisdictions abandoned daylight saving time in the years after the war ended in 1918 (with some notable exceptions including Canada, the UK, France, and Ireland). However, many different places adopted it for periods of time during the following decades and it became common during World War II. It became widely adopted, particularly in North America and Europe, starting in the 1970s as a result of the 1970s energy crisis.
It's not "very unique". It's either one of a kind, or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know "unusual" has been added as one possible meaning of unique in Websters, but that was more recent, and frankly, I think the definition should revert back to being without a like or equal. It was such a fantastic word for that purpose.
As it stands now, you might as well just say, "that's unusual." It means the same thing in our modern lexicon.
Never heard of Frank Abagnale, who was hired by the FBI after committing years of fraud? Loyd Blankenship, a hacker for more than a decade, who was then was hired by Steve Jackson Games in 1989 to work on GURPS Cyberpunk. Howabout Peter Hajas, a well known developer/hacker for jailbroken iOS devices, was hired by Apple in 2011?
Hey, give CNN a break. They created a 24/7 news cycle they have to fill with 23 hours of pontificating pundits. The pundits have become more the news than actual breaking events.
Howabout teaching critical thinking skills at every grade level. A large chunk of this generation may already be too far gone, but that doesn't mean we can't begin fixing the problem with the next one. Anyone with even a modest ability to critically think when confronted with hyperbole on social media sites can quickly discern real from fake news, or at least realize the need to use Google or other search engines (such as duckduckgo.com) to check the veracity of any "news" report or bombastic claim.
Students who need to walk through metal detectors and have police posted in their buildings; airport customers treated like prison visitors -- trip a detector and get searched; police and fire stations where officers sit behind 3-inches of bullet proof glass. And now subway body scanners.
Believe it or not, when I was a kid, we never locked the front door. Yeah, it wasn't all that long ago.
It's no longer just about the quality of the product you or whether your company grew. It's about meeting financial analysts' numbers. Meet them or risk having your stock sold off. And, now with new computer algorithms trading billions of share a day, millions a second, the market is more volatile than ever before.
A butterfly flaps its wings in Bali and an EU company's stock plummets.
Other liquids have been identified on extraterrestrial bodies. For example, Scientists used low frequency radio signal from the Cassini probe to detect the existence of a layer of liquid ammonia beneath the surface of Saturn's Titan moon.
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They mention in the article the three brands that did not contain microplastics are from Taiwan (refined sea salt), China (refined rock salt), and France (unrefined sea salt produced by solar evaporation).
I've traditionally used salt from the French producer La Baleine because it's tastier than Morton's, the largest brand.
I'd love to know that on top of flavor, I'm also getting a healthier product.
"In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men"
From the study:
"The simulated distributions of girls’ and boys’ grades show the distributions of grades overlap more in STEM (94.2%) than non-STEM (88.2%) subjects. For example, within the top 10% of the distribution the gender ratio is even for STEM, and slightly female-skewed for non-STEM (language, humanities, social science). One possible explanation is that boys’ are more affected by the ceiling affect in STEM than non-STEM. For example, if a grading scale cannot distinguish between students in the top 1% or top 0.1%, and if there exists a male skew in the top 0.1% only in STEM but non in non-STEM, then gender differences in variance would be underestimated in STEM.
I thought the purpose of Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was to illustrate the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation. So, now the new thought experiment is again reinforcing original thought experiment... that you can have two different conclusions?
If it's anything like the last retro console -- NES Classic Edition -- Sony will produce about 10,000 units and create mass hysteria for it.
Now, a business-minded person would Nintendo shorted the market to create more demand; of course in Nintendo's case, it was only to create hysteria as they never produced more to meet that demand.
One of the most bizarre Christmas product releases I've ever seen.
The key word (the dog whistle term) is "overtake". Machines aren't "overtaking" anything. They're helping to automate processes, just as they did in the automotive industry and other manufacturing markets. Some jobs go away, others will be created -- perhaps even more interesting careers will come out of the more mundane processes going away
It's not a zero sum game.
Author Bill Bryson explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. I'm just beginning the book, but I've already found it absolutely fascinating as it's filled with little factoids, such as why Pluto lost its planetary status (it's less than half the size of the United States and may even be a comet in the Kuiper belt), or of the billions and billions of species that existed throughout Earth's history, 99.99% of them no longer exist; the average existence of a species is 4 million years.
It's a really compelling read.
I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me. After that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
I totally agree.
The Russian "involvement" in the 2016 election is being overplayed. We act is if the U.S. and other nations don't try to affect the outcome of elections around the world, and that the fake news on Facebook/Twitter in our last election somehow influenced a large swatch of the electorate -- people other than died-in-the-wool conservative. It's not as if moderates were suddenly believing Pizzagate was real and Hillary Clinton and top Democratic operatives are running an underground and possibly satanic child sex ring out of a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C.
I think it would be interesting to see the results of an objective poll or some other study showing just how much influence fake news had in the election. To date, all we have is a narrative being pushed by sore losers.
That's apples and oranges.
1. Obviously, it's vastly more difficult to leave a country than a job. In the U.S., we have a free market system, which means you can use your legs and pocket books to cast your vote for or agains a company.
2. You can change laws (i.e., government policies) through a number of channels: voting, protesting, lobbying, ballot initiatives, etc...
Happens all the time.
Sowing discord... that is vague. There are many reasons for discord; attempting to tie a foreign propaganda campaign into that does seem a nearly impossible task. So, do we trust that the institutions established post-1776, believing they're strong enough to continue to stand, or do we form another House Committee on UnAmerican Activity and begin a witch hunt for anyone deemed to be sowing discord? Personally, I think our union is strong enough to withstand any foreign attempt to overthrow it from within.
If you don't think you're being paid enough, find another job. I don't like this idea that the government is going to get into the business of micromanaging how much companies pay their employees. A minimum wage is one standard for all, but to begin taxing companies as a way of penalizing them for not paying their employees enough: hello socialism.
So, Russia placed misinformation on social networks, and who do we believe that swayed? I've yet to see a single study, or even anyone claiming, those ads and fake news reports actually had an effect on the election, i.e., convinced voters to choose one candidate over another. Isn't that something that should be studied?
Seems to me, the only people who'd gravitate to the type of fake news and misinformation being put out during the 2016 campaign were those already staunchly in their political corners.
While many believe DST was started for farming, in fact, most farmers don't like it. Historically, DST began in 1916, when the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary introduced it as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the United States adopted daylight saving in 1918. Broadly speaking, most jurisdictions abandoned daylight saving time in the years after the war ended in 1918 (with some notable exceptions including Canada, the UK, France, and Ireland). However, many different places adopted it for periods of time during the following decades and it became common during World War II. It became widely adopted, particularly in North America and Europe, starting in the 1970s as a result of the 1970s energy crisis.
Um, what does religion have to do with these shootings? Or is that just a patented answer you give?
It's not "very unique". It's either one of a kind, or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know "unusual" has been added as one possible meaning of unique in Websters, but that was more recent, and frankly, I think the definition should revert back to being without a like or equal. It was such a fantastic word for that purpose.
As it stands now, you might as well just say, "that's unusual." It means the same thing in our modern lexicon.
Never heard of Frank Abagnale, who was hired by the FBI after committing years of fraud? Loyd Blankenship, a hacker for more than a decade, who was then was hired by Steve Jackson Games in 1989 to work on GURPS Cyberpunk. Howabout Peter Hajas, a well known developer/hacker for jailbroken iOS devices, was hired by Apple in 2011?
The list goes on and on.
And, this kid will be making big bucks using his skills for Apple or some other tech giant.
Hey, give CNN a break. They created a 24/7 news cycle they have to fill with 23 hours of pontificating pundits. The pundits have become more the news than actual breaking events.
Howabout teaching critical thinking skills at every grade level. A large chunk of this generation may already be too far gone, but that doesn't mean we can't begin fixing the problem with the next one. Anyone with even a modest ability to critically think when confronted with hyperbole on social media sites can quickly discern real from fake news, or at least realize the need to use Google or other search engines (such as duckduckgo.com) to check the veracity of any "news" report or bombastic claim.
Students who need to walk through metal detectors and have police posted in their buildings; airport customers treated like prison visitors -- trip a detector and get searched; police and fire stations where officers sit behind 3-inches of bullet proof glass. And now subway body scanners.
Believe it or not, when I was a kid, we never locked the front door. Yeah, it wasn't all that long ago.
They don't even understand it's not true socialism. It's democratic socialism that younglings are referring to when they cite European nations.
This.
It's no longer just about the quality of the product you or whether your company grew. It's about meeting financial analysts' numbers. Meet them or risk having your stock sold off. And, now with new computer algorithms trading billions of share a day, millions a second, the market is more volatile than ever before.
A butterfly flaps its wings in Bali and an EU company's stock plummets.
Mars. I hear the moon's restaurants have great food but no atmosphere.
Other liquids have been identified on extraterrestrial bodies. For example, Scientists used low frequency radio signal from the Cassini probe to detect the existence of a layer of liquid ammonia beneath the surface of Saturn's Titan moon.
You've obviously never seen"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".